Regardless of selling over 500,000 less units than the week before, T.I. did not budge, holding the #1 spot for the second week, after his third straight top-spot debut. Paper Trail held Metallica off by over 100,000 units as Atlanta's top-selling rapper is on likely pace to go platinum this week amidst an album campaign that's several singles from over. Time will tell how T.I. stands when Kanye West and 50 Cent enter the charts before year's end.
As Ne-Yo climbed yet again with Year of the Gentleman , out-selling Robin Thicke [click to read] and joining Jennifer Hudson, along with T.I. as the only three urban artists in the Top Ten. The blokes from Oasis, for what it's worth, held #5 with their new collection Dig Out Your Soul. The three mainstays of Lil Wayne [click to read], Young Jeezy [click to read] and The Game [click to read] finished in that order with Tha Carter III [click to read], Recession [click to read] and LAX [click to read] respectively. While The Game fell less than 4,000 units of cracking the gold benchmark, Young Jeezy surpassed it, as all of his solo albums have now earned the Atlanta star plaques.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total | |
| 1 | T.I. | Paper Trail | 176,714 | 746,075 | |
| 8 | Ne-Yo | Year of the Gentleman | 46,904 | 450,356 | |
| 13 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III | 27,229 | 2,550,507 | |
| 15 | Young Jeezy | Recession |
| 516,476 | |
| 21 | The Game | LAX | 20,809 | 496,829 |
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